Fender Custom Shop Michael Landau Signature Relic, 3 Colour Sunburst Overview
Fender Custom Shop Michael Landau Signature 1968 Stratocaster Relic (Bleached 3 Colour Sunburst) Overview by GAK:
World-renowned session ace Michael Landau has played on hundreds of albums since the early 1980s, with artists as varied as Joni Mitchell, Seal, Michael Jackson, James Taylor, B.B. King, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis, to name only a few. He has also fronted several bands, including the Raging Honkies, Burning Water and, more recently, Renegade Creation with Robben Ford. With his own group, he continues to raise the bar in electric jazz, instrumental and rock guitar.
The Fender Custom Shop Artist Collection Michael Landau Signature 1968 Relic Stratocaster is based on Landau's 1968 Stratocaster, with a hand-selected lightweight alder body, special "custom oval" neck profile, custom hand-wound pickups and wiring, and a worn Black and Bleached Three-color Sunburst nitrocellulose lacquer finishes. Other features include a round-laminated dark rosewood fingerboard with a 7.25" radius and 6105 frets, period-correct large headstock, five-way pickup switching, and custom vintage-style tremolo bridge. The guitar comes with a case, strap and Fender Custom Shop certificate of authenticity.
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- Body Material: Select Lightweight Alder
- Body Shape: Stratocaster®
- Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Neck Shape: Custom "C"
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: Narrow Jumbo
- Position Inlays: White Dot
- Fingerboard: Round-Laminated Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" (184.1 mm)
- Neck Material: Maple
- Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
- Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Fat '50s Single-Coil Strat®
- Middle Pickup: Custom Shop Fat '50s Single-Coil Strat®
- Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Fat '50s Single-Coil Strat®
- Pickup Switching: 5-Position Blade:
- -Position 1. Bridge Pickup
- -Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
- -Position 3. Middle Pickup
- -Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
- -Position 5. Neck Pickup
- Controls:
- -Master Volume
- -Tone 1. (Neck/Middle Pickups)
- -Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup)
- Hardware Finish: Nickel/Chrome
- Bridge: 6-Saddle American Vintage Synchronized Tremolo
- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
- Pickguard: 3-Ply Mint Green